Nigerian voters returned to the polls on Saturday to elect powerful state govern...
LAGOS - Nigerian voters returned to the polls on Saturday to elect powerful state governors just two weeks after Muhammadu Buhari secured a second term in a delayed presidential vote, but civil society observers said turnout was low.
As the country is Africa’s biggest oil producer and has the continent’s largest economy, many of the governors control budgets larger than those of small nations. Reuters reporters also said turnout was low in many parts of the country including the capital, Abuja, the northern cities of Kaduna and Yola and in the commercial capital, Lagos.
Nigeria’s security forces have been stretched in recent years by an Islamist insurgency in the northeast as well as by communal violence and banditry in other areas. A spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission , Rotimi Oyekanmi, in a text message said the commission was not yet able to assess the turnout rate.
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